How long is the BSc in Elderly Care Management?

The BSc in Elderly Care Management is three years full-time (with part-time and accelerated routes), taught on-campus in London or via online and distance learning.

Can I study the BSc in Elderly Care Management online?

Yes. The BSc in Elderly Care Management is offered fully online with live CQC-readiness clinics, or as distance learning with workplace supervision in your own care service.

Is the BSc recognised by UK care providers?

The BSc in Elderly Care Management is mapped to Skills for Care manager frameworks and CQC fundamental standards — the references registered managers are appointed and inspected against.

What are the entry requirements for the BSc in Elderly Care Management?

Three A-levels at BBC (IB 28, BTEC DMM), GCSE English at grade 5/C and Maths at grade 4/C, IELTS 6.5 for non-native English speakers, and an enhanced DBS check before placement.

What does the BSc in Elderly Care Management cost and are scholarships available?

Fees vary by route and domicile. The BSc in Elderly Care Management offers a registered-manager progression bursary each intake — contact admissions for current fees.

BSc Elderly Care Management London UK | LSCT London | Harold International College of London

Course Overview

The BSc in Elderly Care Management at the London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a three-year undergraduate degree for students preparing to lead in the residential, domiciliary and dementia-care sectors that serve the UK's ageing population. The degree is shaped by Skills for Care manager frameworks, CQC fundamental standards and the operational realities of running a UK care home or community service. It is taught from our central London base, with online and distance routes for working care managers.

You will study clinical fundamentals alongside the operational discipline of running a regulated care service — staffing, rostering, safeguarding, complaints, and CQC-readiness. Assessment includes structured placements, a service-improvement project and a final-year dissertation supervised by a serving care-sector leader.

You will be taught alongside serving healthcare and care professionals, with cohorts deliberately drawn from NHS trusts, independent providers and the third sector so peer learning is rich and immediate. Tutors are practising clinicians or registered managers, which keeps the syllabus aligned to UK regulatory and operational reality.

Key Features

UK honours degree mapped to Skills for Care manager-induction frameworks.
Three study modes — on-campus near London care providers, online with live CQC-readiness clinics, or distance learning with workplace supervision.
Dementia-care specialism module drawing on Alzheimer's Society best-practice guidance.
CQC-inspection readiness lab built around the single-assessment framework.
Structured placement in a residential or community provider in year two.
Final-year dissertation supervised by a registered manager on faculty.

The programme is timetabled around clinical shift patterns so working healthcare and care staff can attend without leaving their post, and reflective assessment uses real (anonymised) workplace material so coursework also produces evidence for revalidation. Tutorials are run with a duty-of-care framing throughout.

What You Will Learn

The degree builds the four capabilities CQC and Skills for Care benchmark registered managers against — clinical literacy, regulatory fluency, workforce leadership and financial control. You will graduate able to chair a service-improvement meeting and defend a CQC action plan.

Ageing, gerontology and pathophysiology in the older adult.
Dementia care and end-of-life practice.
Safeguarding adults, MCA and DoLS.
CQC fundamental standards and single-assessment framework.
Workforce management, rostering and safer staffing.
Care-service finance — fee-rates, local-authority contracts and CHC.
Quality improvement, audit and clinical governance.
Research methods and the elderly-care dissertation.

Each module is assessed against the standards UK regulators and commissioners actually apply — not a textbook ideal — so coursework feedback prepares students for CQC inspections, NMC revalidation and Skills for Care audit alike.

Who This Course Is For

Senior care workers preparing to become registered managers.
Care providers' deputies moving into home-manager roles.
International applicants entering UK adult-social-care leadership.
Healthcare graduates specialising in elderly-care services.

International nurses and care workers preparing for UK employment are welcome, with dedicated tutorial support on UK statutory, governance and language norms. Career changers entering health and care from public-facing service backgrounds find the programme a credible foundation.

Career Pathways

Graduates move into the leadership tier of the UK adult-social-care workforce. Typical destinations include:

Registered Manager (CQC-registered service)
Senior Care Worker
Care Home Deputy Manager
Domiciliary Care Coordinator
Dementia-Care Lead
Quality and Safeguarding Officer

Recent destinations include senior support and care-worker posts in London teaching hospitals, registered-manager appointments in CQC-regulated services, community-mental-health team roles, and quality and patient-experience posts in NHS trusts and independent providers. The careers function supports CV review and structured interview rehearsal for Band-equivalent roles.

The BSc is a strong foundation for an MSc in Healthcare Leadership or registered-manager apprenticeship routes.

The health and social care department maintains active links with NHS trusts, registered managers, third-sector providers and clinical-research groups across London, with former students regularly returning as guest tutors and supervisors.

Entry Requirements

Three A-levels at grades BBC or above, or an equivalent UK / international qualification (IB 28+, BTEC DMM, Foundation Year pass).
GCSE English Language at grade 5/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
A personal statement; mature applicants (21+) may apply with a portfolio of care-sector experience and an enhanced DBS check before placement.

Mature applicants with relevant clinical or care experience can apply through the experience-weighted route; the health department reviews professional background, registration status and references alongside formal qualifications. International applicants — particularly internationally-educated nurses — receive structured support on UK governance, language norms and the NMC-context expectations of the programme.

Why Study at LSCT

The London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a specialist higher-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies so qualifications carry weight with employers. London puts Whitehall, the City, Silicon Roundabout, the Royal Courts of Justice, the West End and the NHS estate within a short tube ride of every classroom — and our students use that proximity in their projects, placements and graduate job hunts. Our health faculty includes serving CQC-registered managers, so improvement projects are critiqued against real recent inspection reports.

The health and social care department teaches with serving clinicians and registered managers, so case material reflects the workforce, regulatory and funding realities of the UK system as it is now — not as it was before the pandemic reshaped it. Students leave fluent with the language and standards UK employers immediately recognise.

Apply for BSc in Elderly Care Management

The BSc in Elderly Care Management is built to launch your career in the Health & Social Care sector. Click Enrol Now to submit your application; admissions reply within one working day.

Admissions decisions on the health and social care programme are returned within one working day, with intake confirmation, an enhanced DBS check timeline and credit-transfer review where applicable. Tuition guidance, NHS-progression bursaries and any other available awards are flagged privately.

The team can discuss DBS timelines, placement allocation and study-mode flexibility, and offers pre-arrival orientation for internationally-educated healthcare and care staff.

Cohort sizes remain deliberately small so simulation labs, supervision and reflective work all get tutor attention, and current students consistently report the working-clinician faculty as the strongest feature of the LSCT health and social care programme.